Manziel reminds Favre of 'a young Brett Favre'

5:05 PM,
Feb. 19, 2014

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Nate Davis
USA TODAY

Brett Favre was aware of the chatter. He'd heard people say that the frenetic, go-for-broke, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback from Texas A&M had a whole lot of Brett Favre in his game.When he finally saw Johnny Manziel play, Favre understood the comparisons.

"I haven't watched him much," Favre told USA TODAY Sports recently, "but one game I watched, for like three quarters, was the Ole Miss game."

Manziel passed for 346 yards and ran for 124 more (plus two TDs) while engineering a 41-38 comeback win for the Aggies in Oxford, Miss., on Oct. 12, 2013. ...